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2013

Format:	Book
Author:	Yagoda, Ben, author.
Title:	How to not write bad : the most common writing problems and the best ways to avoid them / Ben Yagoda.
Edition:	First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
Description:	xi, 175 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	Offers a guide for crafting sentences and paragraphs that are both effective and interesting and that combine clarity with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Subjects:	English language -- Rhetoric -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Report writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. English language -- Grammar -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Contents:	Introduction -- pt. I. How to Not Write Bad : The One-Word Version. pt. II. How to Not Write Wrong. The elements of house style -- Punctuation -- Words -- Grammar -- pt. III. How to Not Write Bad. Punctuation -- Words and phrases -- Sentences -- Sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph -- Author's note.
LCCN:	2012043126
ISBN:	9781594488481 (softcover) 1594488487 (softcover)
Other Number:	795167076
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Control Number:	426927
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Call Number:	808.042 Yagoda

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